Azure Site Recovery pricing

Azure Site Recovery can help you protect important services by coordinating the automated replication and recovery of protected instances at a secondary location.

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Pricing details

Azure Site Recovery is billed based on number of instances protected. Every instance that is protected with Azure Site Recovery is free for the first 31 days, as noted below.

Price For First 31 days

Price After 31 Days

Azure Site Recovery to customer owned sites

Free

$-/month per instance protected

Azure Site Recovery to Azure

Free

$-/month per instance protected

Azure Site Recovery between Azure regions is charged at the same rate as Azure Site Recovery to Azure.

Azure Site Recovery is billed in units of the average daily number of instances you are protecting over a monthly period. For example, if you consistently protected 20 instances for the first half of the month, and none for the second half of the month, the average daily number of protected instances would be 10 for that month.

FAQ

Every instance that is protected with Azure Site Recovery is free for the first 31 days of protection. From the 32nd day onwards, protection for the instance is charged at the rates above.

Yes, it does not matter how long you have been using Azure Site Recovery. Every protected instance incurs no Azure Site Recovery charges for the first 31 days. For example, if you have been protecting 10 instances for the last 6 months and you connect an 11th instance to Azure Site Recovery, there will be no Azure Site Recovery charges for the 11th instance for the first 31 days. The first 10 instances continue to incur Azure Site Recovery charges since they have been protected for more than 31 days.

Yes, even though Azure Site Recovery is free during the first 31 days of a protected instance, you might incur charges for Azure Storage, storage transactions, and data transfer. A recovered virtual machine might also incur Azure compute charges.

When you use Site Recovery, you incur charges for the Site Recovery license, Azure storage, storage transactions, and outbound data transfer.

The Site Recovery license is per protected instance, where an instance is a virtual machine or a physical server.

If a virtual machine disk replicates to a standard storage account, the Azure Storage charge is for the storage consumption. For example, if the source disk size is 1 TB, and 400 GB of storage is used, Site Recovery creates a 1 TB VHD in Azure, but the storage charged is 400 GB (plus the amount of storage space used for replication logs).

If a virtual machine disk replicates to a premium storage account, the Azure storage charge is for the provisioned storage size, rounded out for the nearest premium storage disk option. For example, if the source disk size is 50 GB, Site Recovery creates a 50 GB disk in Azure, and Azure maps this to the nearest premium storage disk (P10). Costs are calculated on P10, and not on the 50 GB disk size. Learn more. If you're using premium storage, a standard storage account for replication logging is also required, and the amount of standard storage space used for these logs is also billed.

No disks are created until a test failover or a failover. In the replication state, storage charges under the category of "Page blob and disk" as per the storage pricing calculator are incurred. These charges are based on the type of storage—premium or standard—and the data redundancy type, including LRS, GRS, RA-GRS, and more.

If the option to use managed disks on a failover is selected, charges for managed disks apply after a failover or test failover. Managed disks charges do not apply during replication. During replication, storage charges under the category of "Unmanaged disks and page blobs" are incurred. These charges are based on the storage type of premium/standard and the data redundancy type - LRS, GRS, RA-GRS etc.

During replication: Storage charges under the category of "Unmanaged disks and page blobs" for premium storage disk sizes P10 and P20 are incurred. The size of the disks being replicated (128 GB and 500 GB) are rounded off to the nearest unmanaged premium disk size of P10(128 GB) and P20(512 GB) for billing. A standard storage account for logging delta changes during replication is also used. Storage charges under the category of "Unmanaged disks and page blobs" based on the amount of standard storage used for these logs is also billed.

During a Test failover or after failover to managed disks: Managed disk charges for premium managed disks of sizes P10 and P20 apply.

During replication: Storage charges under the category of "Unmanaged disks and page blobs" for standard storage are incurred.

During a Test failover or after failover to managed disks: Managed disk charges for standard managed disks of sizes S4(32 GB) and S15(256 GB) apply. As you can see, the size of the disks (32 GB and 250 GB) have been rounded off to the nearest standard managed disk size of S4(32 GB) and S15(256 GB).

If the option to use managed disks on a failover is not selected, storage charges under the category of "Unmanaged Disks and Page blobs" as per the Storage pricing calculator are incurred after failover. These charges are based on the type of storage—premium or standard—and the data redundancy type, including LRS, GRS, RA-GRS, and more.

Storage transactions are charged during steady-state replication and for regular virtual machine operations after a failover or test failover. But these charges are negligible.

Costs are also incurred during test failover, where the virtual machine, storage, egress, and storage transactions costs will be applied.

The Azure Hybrid Benefit helps you get the most value from licenses on-premises and in the cloud. It lets you use your Windows Server licenses with Software Assurance for virtual machines at the base compute rate, resulting in up to 40 percent savings or more across all Azure regions. Use your Hybrid Benefit while migrating your Windows servers to Azure. Learn more.

It's important to note that when an instance protected by Azure Site Recovery is recovered at the recovery site, the software running inside the protected instance must be properly licensed as well. The end customer needs to license Microsoft server products as follows, depending on the recovery site selected.

The disaster recovery software assurance benefit applies to Microsoft server products protected with Azure Site Recovery. This change was made in the 2015 Product Use Rights (PUR).

*On-premises can be used to describe both an end customer or service provider environment, as long as it is for their own usage and not resold.

The servers need to be fully licensed with Windows Server licenses. If the customer has active Software Assurance coverage on their Windows Server at the primary site, they may deploy Windows Server at the secondary site through the Disaster Recovery Software Assurance benefit for non-production disaster recovery purposes only. Consult the Product Use Rights (PUR) to determine if customer usage meets the Disaster Recovery Software Assurance benefit criteria.

These servers can be licensed with separate licenses at the secondary site or through the Disaster Recovery Software Assurance benefit, if the customer qualifies for this benefit.

Windows Server can be licensed via your SPLA agreement or via the end customer’s license if they qualify for the Disaster Recovery Software Assurance benefit.

These server products should be licensed via your SPLA on the basis in which the servers are normally licensed in SPLA (Per Core, Per User, and so on).

These servers can be licensed via your SPLA or via the end customer’s license if they qualify for the Disaster Recovery Software Assurance benefit.

Azure Hybrid Benefit is applicable to all customers with active Software Assurance and can be activated in Azure regardless of how Azure is being procured (Enterprise Agreement, Cloud Solution Provider, and others).

License Mobility and Azure Hybrid Benefit require Software Assurance and therefore do not apply to SPLA. The service provider should refer to their SPLA contracts about terms and conditions of the agreement.

The Disaster Recovery Software Assurance benefit applies to Microsoft server products protected with Azure Site Recovery. This change was made in the January 2015 Product Use Rights.

If a customer is using Azure Site Recovery to migrate Microsoft server products (for example, SQL Server) from a service provider to Azure, the customer would need to have their own Software Assurance and use License Mobility.

Yes, test recoveries are limited to brief periods of disaster recovery testing within one week every 90 days.

Use of any other high availability technology for SQL Server, for example, failover clustering, or replication technology, such as SQL Always On Availability Groups, database mirroring, and log shipping, is bound by the following SQL Server licensing guidelines - the first passive database instance (typically for local high availability) is covered by the Software Assurance license of the primary database. Any additional passive database instances (for disaster recovery, say in a remote on-premises data center or in any cloud) need additional SQL Server licenses. If the primary SQL instance is on dedicated hardware, the first passive instance is covered by the Software Assurance license on dedicated hardware, and not on shared hardware. If the primary SQL instance is on shared hardware, then the first passive instance is covered on shared hardware. Read the SQL Server Licensing guide for more information.

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